20 must-read fantasy books like The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky

Cover of The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky

The Wolf in the Whale

By: Jordanna Max Brodsky

4.12

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

A sweeping tale of clashing cultures, warring gods, and forbidden love: In 1000 AD, a young Inuit s…

"Spirit upon spirit curled one within the other like the spirals of a shell."

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Just as I was man and woman, just as the fanged aarluk was wolf and whale, my people could not be contained in a single god."

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Like you, I am woman and more than woman. I have felt a woman's pain, but I have hunted like a man. Who else has lived both lives?"

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Why would I continue life as a man trapped in a girl’s body when I could just as easily fly into the heavens or run with the wolves?"

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Midnight Never Come (Onyx Court, #1) by Marie Brennan

1. Midnight Never Come (Onyx Court, #1)

By: Marie Brennan

3.81

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

England flourishes under the hand of its Virgin Queen: Elizabeth, Gloriana, last and most powerful … read more

Similar categories in Marie Brennan's Midnight Never Come (Onyx Court, #1) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Ghostly Echoes (Jackaby, #3) by William  Ritter, Уильям Риттер

2. Ghostly Echoes (Jackaby, #3)

By: William Ritter , Уильям Риттер

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

Jenny Cavanaugh, the ghostly lady of 926 Augur Lane, has enlisted the investigative services of her… read more

Similar categories in William Ritter's Ghostly Echoes (Jackaby, #3) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Copper Promise (The Copper Cat, #1) by Jen Williams

3. The Copper Promise (The Copper Cat, #1)

By: Jen Williams

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

There are some far-fetched rumours about the caverns beneath the Citadel... Some say the mages left… read more

Similar categories in Jen Williams's The Copper Promise (The Copper Cat, #1) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction

4. The Kill Switch (Tucker Wayne, #1)

By: James Rollins , Grant Blackwood

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood, the first installment in an exciting ne… read more

Similar categories in James Rollins's The Kill Switch (Tucker Wayne, #1) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

5. The Glass Town Game

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

Charlotte and Emily must enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's The Glass Town Game book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

6. Knife (Faery Rebels, #1)

By: R.J. Anderson

4.40

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Once upon a time, a fairy is born. She lives in an old oak tree at the bottom of a garden with the … read more

Similar categories in R.J. Anderson's Knife (Faery Rebels, #1) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

7. Wisp of a Thing (Tufa, #2)

By: Alex Bledsoe

3.93

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Alex Bledsoe's The Hum and the Shiver was named one of the Best Fiction Books of 2011 by Kirkus Rev… read more

Similar categories in Alex Bledsoe's Wisp of a Thing (Tufa, #2) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

8. The Iron Dragon's Daughter

By: Michael Swanwick

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

A slave in a dragon factory that manufactures flying fighting machines, Jane changes her destiny wh… read more

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9. Beautiful Wreck

By: Larissa Brown

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

This is an alternate cover edition for  In a bleak future built on virtual reality, Ginn is a roma… read more

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10. After the Apocalypse

By: None

3.00

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

The apocalypse was yesterday. These stories are today. Following up on her first collection, Story … read more

Similar categories in None's After the Apocalypse book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

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11. Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enj… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Kaner's Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"But gods love martyrs."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Gods love martyrs. - Kissen"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"Kissen decided to be more proud than afraid."

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

"I want you to do this with me, not for me. - Arren"

-Hannah Kaner, Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

Cover of The Blackthorn Queen (Eagles and Crows #1) by Melanie Karsak

12. The Blackthorn Queen (Eagles and Crows #1)

By: Melanie Karsak

4.52

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Britain, AD 38, Princess Cartimandua—Carti—of the Brigantes tribe faces an uncertain future when he… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Karsak's The Blackthorn Queen (Eagles and Crows #1) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
Cover of The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec

13. The Weaver and the Witch Queen

By: Genevieve Gornichec

3.88

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

The lives of two women—one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Gornichec's The Weaver and the Witch Queen book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • historical fantasy
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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14. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's Red Rabbit book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Bitterburn (Gothic Fairytales, #1) by Ann Aguirre

16. Bitterburn (Gothic Fairytales, #1)

By: Ann Aguirre

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

Amarrah Brewer is desperate and grief-stricken. For ages, the town of Bitterburn has sent tribute … read more

Similar categories in Ann Aguirre's Bitterburn (Gothic Fairytales, #1) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky

17. The Wolf in the Whale

By: Jordanna Max Brodsky

4.12

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

A sweeping tale of clashing cultures, warring gods, and forbidden love: In 1000 AD, a young Inuit s… read more

Similar categories in Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • romance
  • historical fantasy
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"Spirit upon spirit curled one within the other like the spirals of a shell."

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Just as I was man and woman, just as the fanged aarluk was wolf and whale, my people could not be contained in a single god."

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Like you, I am woman and more than woman. I have felt a woman's pain, but I have hunted like a man. Who else has lived both lives?"

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

"Why would I continue life as a man trapped in a girl’s body when I could just as easily fly into the heavens or run with the wolves?"

-Jordanna Max Brodsky, The Wolf in the Whale

Cover of The Puppetmaster by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

18. The Puppetmaster

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.71

Format: 15 pages, ebook

A banished warrior teaches her treacherous uncle that once made, some oaths cannot be broken...and … read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Puppetmaster book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott

19. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.76

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more

Similar categories in GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Shield Maiden by Sharon Emmerichs

20. Shield Maiden

By: Sharon Emmerichs

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Both epic and intimate, Sharon Emmerichs's extraordinary debut novel reimagines  Beowulf  from the … read more

Similar categories in Sharon Emmerichs's Shield Maiden book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
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21. The Book of Dragons

By: Jonathan Strahan

3.71

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Here there be dragons . . . From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long ca… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Strahan's The Book of Dragons book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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22. Counting Casualties

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.69

Format: 18 pages, ebook

Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Counting Casualties book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

23. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Architects of Memory (The Memory War, #1) by Karen Osborne

24. Architects of Memory (The Memory War, #1)

By: Karen Osborne

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she'll … read more

Similar categories in Karen Osborne's Architects of Memory (The Memory War, #1) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Exadelic

By: Jon Evans

3.47

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark ar… read more

Similar categories in Jon Evans's Exadelic book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Hyena and the Hawk (Echoes of the Fall, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

26. The Hyena and the Hawk (Echoes of the Fall, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.12

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

The Hyena and the Hawk is the third book in Adrian Tchaikovsky's epic fantasy trilogy, Echoes of th… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Hyena and the Hawk (Echoes of the Fall, #3) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Sixteenth Watch

By: Myke Cole

3.81

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

The Coast Guard must prevent the first lunar war in history.A lifelong Search-and-Rescuewoman, Coas… read more

Similar categories in Myke Cole's Sixteenth Watch book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Kate and Jesse (Vengeance Road, #1.5) by Erin Bowman

28. Kate and Jesse (Vengeance Road, #1.5)

By: Erin Bowman

4.18

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER REVENGE? Kate Thompson thought avenging her father’s death would help her sle… read more

Similar categories in Erin Bowman's Kate and Jesse (Vengeance Road, #1.5) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The truth is just uglier than we like to admit."

-Erin Bowman, Kate and Jesse (Vengeance Road, #1.5)

Cover of Teeth (The Icefjord Saga, #1) by Zaya Feli

29. Teeth (The Icefjord Saga, #1)

By: Zaya Feli

4.00

Format: 262 pages, ebook

Twelve years after the death of his family, Isa meets a boy in the woods with an injured foot who c… read more

Similar categories in Zaya Feli's Teeth (The Icefjord Saga, #1) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Optimistic Decade by Heather Abel

30. The Optimistic Decade

By: Heather Abel

3.30

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This entertaining and assured debut novel about a utopian summer camp and its charismatic leader as… read more

Similar categories in Heather Abel's The Optimistic Decade book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"One had to at all times remain free of the delusion that anybody was who you believed them to be."

-Heather Abel, The Optimistic Decade

Cover of Claws (The Icefjord Saga, #2) by Zaya Feli

31. Claws (The Icefjord Saga, #2)

By: Zaya Feli

4.19

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Isa's hunt to find a cure for the Varg's curse has failed and the stakes are only getting higher. T… read more

Similar categories in Zaya Feli's Claws (The Icefjord Saga, #2) book and Jordanna Max Brodsky's The Wolf in the Whale

  • adult
  • fantasy

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